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<p class="p_SubHeadingL1"><span class="f_SubHeadingL1">Powerful UML Analysis and Design Tool</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Enterprise Architect is a comprehensive UML analysis and design tool, covering all aspects of the software development cycle from requirements gathering, through analysis, model design, testing, change control and maintenance to implementation, with </span><span class="f_BodyText">full <a href="traceability.htm">traceability</a></span><span class="f_BodyText">. Enterprise Architect combines the power of the latest </span><span class="f_BodyText">UML 2.1</span><span class="f_BodyText"> specification with a high performance, intuitive interface, to bring advanced modeling to the whole development team. It is a multi-user, visual tool with a great feature set (see below), helping analysts, testers, project managers, quality control staff and deployment staff around the world to build and document robust, maintainable systems and processes</span><span class="f_BodyText">.</span></p>
<p class="p_SubHeadingL1"><span class="f_SubHeadingL1">The UML Modeling Tool of Choice, Globally</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">With over 150,000 licenses sold, Enterprise Architect has proven highly popular across a wide range of industries and is used by thousands of companies world-wide. From large, well-known, multi-national organizations to smaller independent companies and consultants, Enterprise Architect has become the UML modeling tool of choice for developers, consultants and analysts in over 60 countries.</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Sparx Systems software is used in the development of many kinds of application and system in a wide range of industries, including: aerospace, banking, web development, engineering, finance, medicine, military, research, academia, transport, retail, utilities (such as gas and electricity) and electrical engineering. It is also used effectively for UML and enterprise architecture training in many prominent colleges, training companies and universities around the world.</span></p>
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<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1" style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="what_can_i_do_with_ea.htm">Uses of Enterprise Architect</a></span></li>
<li><span class="f_Bulletlist1" style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="eafeatures.htm">Enterprise Architect Key Features</a></span></li>
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